We wanted to give our donors and followers some insight on our adoption process and how we will be keeping our donation page updated. We will be updating our page with the stages that Adopt Together provides:

• Paperwork in Process
• Paperwork Complete
• Child Identified
• Travel Planned
• Home at Last

Right now we are at the Paperwork in Process stage. Along with finances, adoption requires a lot of paperwork! We are currently gathering and sending needed documents to our Home Study organization.

Using information provided through our home study and adoption agencies, we’ve totaled up our adoption expenses to be $42,700. To help ourselves and our followers understand where all the dollars go in this process, we’ve categorized expenses into 6 general categories:

• Paperwork & Processing
• Medical
• Home Study
• Adoption Agency
• Travel
• Post Adoption

The bar graph below illustrates how our total expenses are distributed among the categories and also includes how much money we have spent in each category. We will periodically provide updates to both the estimated totals and the expended total for each category.



We are raising $25,000 via Adopt Together to help alleviate the out-of-pocket expenses. Donations made through our Adopt Together page are tax-deductible, and 5% of each donation goes toward Adopt Together’s administrative expenses. In a later update, we will be sharing an exciting plan of how we will acknowledge our donors for their part in our adoption process.

Thank you for your interest in our adoption! We hope that you will consider a contribution to help make our adoption possible.